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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Caption contest for Bostonians and those who love them. I want to hear these dudes' dialogue!

Large yellow rental truck with "Penske" across the front at the side of a road. Its top has been sheared off, and metal scraps trail behind. A white man stands behind the open passenger side door. A black man stands a few feet away facing him. Both in shorts and tshirts. At the back of the truck, a woman in police uniform stands at the side of the road looking down at scraps of metal. Behind here is a graffiti-covered overpass.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Dear Toledo, (and Dear Ohio 5th, no longer centered in NW Ohio)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

this Court clearly mixes their spades with their diamonds, to hide what they’re really cutting by letting a diamond walk. Hiding their trump, as it were. But we can see it. This is what matters. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

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Supreme Court backs Trump's firing of FTC member, overturns precedent

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday backed Donald Trump's firing of a Democratic Federal Trade Commission member, expanding his powers over the government and overturning its 1935 precedent that had rec...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Again, sure, but also the entire national media is making this a self-fulfilling prophecy in the way they are obsessively covering NYC politics, while ignoring all the other types of Democrats winning decisively in all the other places that are beyond the Hudson River. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’ve been away from BSKY for a spell. Nearly two years on—the site has grown, the world has collapsed into ever more ruthless cruelty and chaos. & I still want folks to know #EarlyModern #WomenWrote ! #JewishHistory rocks. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social and always did!

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ever wondered how #Jews of #EarlyModern #Prague thought about the history & traditions of their own community? Perfect time to buy my book! 53% off at Stanford University Press! &35.25 thru June 26. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @contingent-mag.bsky.social www.sup.org?utm_source=n...

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ever wondered how #Jews of #earlymodern #Prague thought about the history & traditions of their own community? Perfect time to buy my book! Right now, before US east coast Shabbat! 53% off at Stanford University Press! Through June 26. $35.25 for #JewishHIstory www.sup.org?utm_source=n...

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thrilled & honored that Sunny Yudkoff named "Women Wrote: Glikl in Context" as an article that struck her as "particularly significant or memorable" among InGeveb's 10 yrs of peer reviewed articles. ysh.k.@ingeveb.bsky.social! #earlymodern @contingent-mag.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb

Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

AIPAC is terrible. Its embrace of Bibi’s lies & extremism, & the full embrace of its policy positions by most of the organized 🇺🇸 Jewish community is a shanda far di goyim. And also, the level of antisemitism here about AIPAC as the controlling cabal of US foreign policy is appalling. Just stop.

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Bart Wallet @bartwallet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I'm happy to present here the new special issue of Studia Rosenthaliana on the early modern rabbis of Amsterdam. On how a new model of urban rabbinate was created. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Studia Rosenthaliana | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Studia Rosenthaliana is the world’s only scholarly journal on the history, culture and heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands, its colonies and diasporas. It was established by the Bibliotheca Rosent...

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I hesitate to even give air to the original what-we're-tired-of that @mcopelov.bsky.social reposts here, but how else to get the point across?

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Unfortunately the Book of Esther provides lots of food for thought these days. But pulling treasures from the 16th through the 21st centuries was a salve for a sore soul. With prayers for a joyful #Purim. #JewishHistory #BookHistory

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

www.cia.gov/stories/stor... #databases #libraries #misinformation #disinfomation our federal govt at work hiding information. ISO of sunlight, the best disinfectant ⛅

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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell - CIA

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, 1/2

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

About time. Still, better late than never. Thank you Mr. President.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Toledoan here. He went there to help in the campaign against the amazing, dedicated, results-producing Congresswoman of Ohio's 9th district, @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social She could use your support. Democracy needs all of us. secure.actblue.com/donate/marcy...

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Philipp Lenhard @philipplenhard.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The University of Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL: $28.99 hardcopy $59.99 ebook $69.99 audiobook DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.

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Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.

The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

If you're at #ajs, come check out @jewishlibraries.bsky.social panel on #careers in #librariesn right now! (8:45 - 10 Sunday Dec 14). Hear from @mmargolis.bsky.social , Alison J, Yelena L and Mack Z - moderated by Director of Capital Jewish #Museum! Marquis 3

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In the AI age, we need librarians more than ever! Librarians are information literacy experts. Plus all the stuff in this blurb! @dhjewish.bsky.social #libraries #librarians #JewishBooks @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social @jewishbook.bsky.social

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This volume of Lithuanian Historical Studies includes an article, "The Yiddish Nation as an Imagined Community," on use of LLMs on #YIVO archival materials for study of pre-war E European #Yiddish - based #Jewish identity. Looks fascinating @dhjewish.bsky.social @mmargolis.bsky.social

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Hey there #JewishLife on #HigherEd campus folks. IMHO, Jewish communities need to support Jewish life at public institutions of higher education. Hillel at @umassamherst.bsky.social is stellar. Give 2day & if they reach 150 donors, there's a bonus. All gifts matched to 20k. bit.ly/umassgt

3 colleges students smiling, with a caption "Support Jewish Students at UMass this Giving Tuesday! Your gift will be DOUBLED for 2x the impact!

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Shawn @shawn1959.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Proud of this City/community partnership tackling hunger & waste—1.5 million meals over the last year from fresh, healthy food that otherwise would’ve ended up in landfills

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Just remembering how much I love this parokhet (curtain for the ark holding the Torah scrolls) and its story of female agency and spirituality. And #memory. #JewishHistory #earlymodern #JewishHistory #HerStory #MaterialCulture sharedhistoryproject.org/object/plohn...

Gold-colored silk textile wtih silver metal embroidery containing Hebrew writing, and two decorative vases next to the writing. Pls contact OP for full inscription.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Today marks the 400th anniversary of the passing of Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Read about the artist on the #ArtHerstory blog - Sofonisba’s Impact Guest post by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i...

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Sofonisba's Impact

Howard Burton discusses Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola's influence on other Italian women artists, including her sisters.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes. Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

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Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now.

Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

On the inspiring work of Balazs Tamasi of Budapest in recovering the pre-World War II library of the Jewish Theological Seminary there. #BookHistory #Libraries #LootedBooks www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

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Rebuilding a Historic Jewish Library, Book by Book

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost. Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format. #earlymodern

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#Metadata matters-deepening my discomfort w online catalogs: "Here lies the paradox of our moment: the same technological advances celebrated for their efficiency are erasing the human expertise that creates the high-quality metadata these systems depend on to function." #libraries #bookhistory 1/2

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

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If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Is @tigers.bsky.social #baseball on bsky yet? LOVE this photo of Dietrich Enns & fam. #persistence ! #GoDownMoTown ! Souse & I had the joy of meeting wife & daughter at a #MudHens game in #Worcester earlier this year. So happy for all of them.

From right to left: Detroit Tigers pitcher Dietrich Enns in a Tigers baseball t-shirt, his young daughter and wife in Tigers home jerseys. They are standing on the grass the left of the third-base line of a baseball diamond. Behind them is a huge screen showing the words "Welcome to Detroit Dietrich Enns," and a photo of Enns sitting, wearing a Detroit home uniform.

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

They're so cool

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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A riveting presentation on Fanny Goldstein by Richard Michelson #AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

#AJLCon25 is underway, with great title recommendations during "Kiki and Kvetch: Spilling the Tea on Queer Jewish Books for Teens and Adults."

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Mazel tov, Marcie Eskin, on receiving the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award! Thank you for everything you do for AJL! #AJLCon25

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

As the world burns, retreat into the past! Resposting this podcast on the inimitable #Glikl because #WomenWhoWrote entertain us, teach us, live in us. Check out Sara Friedman's translation based on Prof. Chava Turniansky's edition at @brandeispress.bsky.social #EarlyModern #JewishHistory

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Glikl of Hameln (1647 – 1724) and her memoirs (with Dr. Rachel Greenblatt) – Seforimchatter PodcastApple PodcastsSpotify

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#AJLCon25 is next week, with a packed schedule of educational, enriching, entertaining, and fun programming! Don't miss out; visit jewishlibraries.org/2025-digital-conference for more information and to register.

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sarahlck.bsky.social @sarahlck.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Lexington, MA today 🇺🇸

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

In the middle of everything, I will not forget them. #LetThemAllGoNow #AllTogether #UntilTheLastHostage #BringThemHomeNow

617 days have passed since October 7th. 53 hostages are still being held captive by the terror organization Hamas.

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